Day 2 -South Kensington

Yesterday,we visited the Nature History Musuem.They showed us a lot of things about living things. My favourite place was the weighing scale,where we get to compare our weight to other animals' weight.It was very fun. Other people wanted to go on it too. I had a lot of fun at the Nature History Musuem.

Isaac's entry to Nowhere

1st day,(the day before yesterday) We boarded the plane to UK.I had fun playing games on the screen of the plane. 2nd day,(yesteRDAY)the plane arrived at UK and we went to collect our luggages.I was very excited to see my uncle at there!!!!!!!! 3rd day,(today,)I ate cornflakes for breakfast.then,I will be going to the Nature History Musuem.

A busy 2013

As we welcome the new year, I cannot help but fear how busy our lives will be in 2013. Isaac will be starting Primary school and we will be welcoming a new member into our family. It will be a busy busy start for the year.

My new bag

I used to be very crazy over bags and shoes, buying at least one every week. But I have since mellowed a lot after marriage. I've recently rekindle my love for these two items. Last wek, I was at Holland V having dinner with my husband. We chanced upon this nice little shop selling Korean accessories and bags. Their earrings were uber duper cute. Two of their designs caught my eyes but i had to settle for only one pair as it was expensive. Anyways back to the new bag.....Most of my bags were ...well...i would not classify them as dainty type and I have been looking for ages for a more lady like bag. So I decided to settle for this one cos i love the colour and the shape.

Lead or manage?

Lead or Manage? When you lead, do you manage? When you manage, are you leading? Some say leaders lead people, managers manage tasks. However, can't leaders manage people and managers lead task? Playing on the semantics? Perhaps.....until now, I do not have an answer. Human Beings are complicated beings. Alone as a single entity, we have our own idiosyncrasies. Take this and add another human being with his/her set of idiosyncrasies, the picture gets complicated. Add more individuals to the picture...

Dinner

Had a mega craving for Spaghetti vongole 2 Saturdays ago and decided to venture into making that for dinner.

Chicken nuggets for starters:


Delicious Spaghetti vongole.I bought fresh clams from the market. Half a kg for the two of us. Simply heavenly


Baked salmon and broccoli rice for Isaac.

My baking journey - Banana muffins

Caught on the baking bug these few days.

Decided to bake after attending a cooking demonstration on how to use my oven. The trainer gave us receipe for banana muffins. Thus decided to try it out the very moment i return home since I have all the ingredients waiting for me at home.

The finished product!! Soft and moist...


The baking process

Weekend

Weekends – a two day break from the usual work week.
Work last week had been hectic. My last weekend was burnt, trying to rush a paper out for the Board of Trustees. The few days of reduced sleep left me feeling very groggy and lethargic throughout the week. So I am very glad for this weekend. In fact, I cannot wait for it to come!
It finally came! I wanted to start my weekend on the Friday night catching up on housework. But sad to say, I slept while putting Isaac to bed as well. Sat came. We started the day with breakfast (as usual) with 4th auntie. We went to Chinatown. Had a variety of food (wanton mee, porridge, yam cake, chee cheong fun, braised chicken leg, siew mai, har kow, carrot cake, etc) which led Isaac to make this comment:” Wow, are we eating buffet?”
After that, we decided to go to RWS to take a look. None of us had been there, so we all decided that we do a boardwalk, pay $1 each for admission and then walk around RWS.

Took some pictures of the place. Majority are picts of this chocolate shop which made me feel as if I am up in the Candyland of Magic Faraway Tree.

Good friend came back for 2 week holiday

Met up with my tail who came back from USA. We went to this eatery at vivo -黑色会. I had been eyeing on this restaurant for ages and finally got a chance to try out the food there. The snack - fried fish skin was superb. Crispy n lighted salted. Pure addiction! I think this was the only food worth mentioning as the rest were just very usual dim sum taste. In fact I thought their 凤爪 was terrible n paled in comparison to Happy Joy restaurant. Here are some pics taken....

A big welcome back to myself

Ever since we left for Shanghai two Decembers ago, I have not been updating my blog. Mainly cos the great firewall of china blocks out blogspot. Thus I had shifted to sina blog to record my adventures in Shanghai. After coming back in Nov, I was so caught up with work. Now that I am miee settled with work, house and daily life, I shall begin blogging again.

New decade, new hopes

Ever since we left for Shanghai in 2009, I have not been able to update my blog as blogspot is banned in China. Will try to update as frequent now that I am back.

Xu Guangqi Memorial Park

Decide to explore the Xu Guangqi memorial Park during one of the mornings and I am very surprised at the level of activities going on in the park. There are people practising taiji, dancing, bird watching, exercising, all in a cold winter morning

徐家汇公园

Red chimmey of the park





The picturesque lake fronting the park





Mischevious Z imitating the pple doing Taiji





Walking on the elevated walkway that meanders around the park


This park is the former site of the Great China Rubber Works. It is a very peaceful oasis in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Xujiahui right outside the park. We did not manage to walk the whole park as it was very very windy that morning (you can see how wrapped up Isaac was - In fact, he was not very well prepared for the walk cos i did not expect the wind to be so strong)

Our first visit to the pediatrician @ Shanghai

Isaac was coughing and having cold on and off for the past 4 weeks. I tried giving him cough/cold medicine from our sg dr. He recovered but after 1 week, the cough/cold combi came back again. Medicine finished and now the decision whether to bring him to see a dr over at China. I have heard many horror stories about drs in China. Thus, decided to go by recommendations from the shanghai mamas. They recommended 2 and i did background checks on two. Being KS, i also booked appointment for both the doctors.

Waiting for our turn at American-Sino Hospital. THe wait was less than 5 mins. Not bad! We also had a personal nurse guiding us throughout the visit.


Waiting for his turn at the waiting area

Nurse measuring his weight

Nurse taking his temp



Overall damage - RMB 600 including medication. Dr is fine, attentive, did the checks on him but can be more personal.

Weekends

Weekends are spent lazing around in shopping malls where there are heaters. It is difficult to go sightseeing in winter.